1.) In reference to the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC, where the court allows corporate and union to spend an unlimited amount of money for political ads. They use money to support or go against the candidates. In my opinion, this is a very remarkable decision where the court decided to grant these different corporations to use money to influence elections. What makes it too obvious is the organization under Citizens United who accepts tons of money during elections to bankroll lawmakers' campaign. These organizations are influential they use lobbyist to promote or pursue their agendas. Moreover, they gain favor on their part, which is the real intention why they help the political candidates. The Supreme Court decision has affected country's democracy. People lose their confidence in the government. They feel that the government is …show more content…
They have more privilege and rights than common people do. Which reference to what Mr. Robert Reich state in his article First Amendment Hijacked by the moneyed interest that, "Millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street and in executive suites aren't contributing all this money out of sheer love of country" but to gain powers and profits to their investments. Their motive is to develop and increase their business. To create more money that cover up the rights and voices of average people. Therefore, we should not classify corporation as people, for they took advantage of the Supreme Court ruling and used it for their own interest, which mentioned in the video, The Story of Citizen United vs. FEC (Public Citizen's "Democracy is For People" Project). If the corporations are people, why do they focus only on matters related to gaining more profits instead of helping the government to improve its services? People are those who cares, support the improvement of the government to help the